*** Official Drake VS #23 IOWA STATE Game(Day) Thread ***

[TuckerBlayze]

I’m not taking anything away from Drake....they played extremely well but the weather and field conditions kept them in the game.
We fumbled a punt snap inside our 5....fumbled a wet ball trying to pass (again inside our 30)...and threw an interception that was returned into our side of the field.
Drake was playing 5 down lineman most of the game and usually had 9 in the box because they knew we couldn’t throw downfield. If the conditions were normal...we would thrown downfield all game and they wouldn’t have stopped us. We would have been able to use our athleticism.
We are not a run first team...yet. We were going to struggle today.
Also...we were without both starting safeties, our starting defensive end, and we lost a starting linebacker.
We did not play well...at all but we won the game. In years past we lose this game!!!

 

[nfrine]

Coach said Montgomery battling the flu. What a stud. 33 carries!

Good this game allowed back-ups and red-shirts playing time ....wonder if Monty will risk playing in another game.

 

[RedDog]

From the AP writeup:

"It's hard to believe Iowa State is one of the 25 best teams in America after this debacle."

Yikes.

National Enquirer: "Could Drake be one of the best 25 teams in America?"

 

[LindenCy]

We won, which is great, but this kind of score is embarrassing, and I'm sure the players and coaches agree.

 

[cyclones500]

Is there a column in the standings for "non-loss"?

If CFB standings were like NHL, it could have Win/Loss/OT win/OT loss/Non-loss.

So, in that format, ISU is 7-4-0-0-1.

 

[Royalclone]

Jesus, throw to Butler

Purdy can be a amazing but he'd be the first to admit he's not Jesus.

 

[madguy30]

We won, which is great, but this kind of score is embarrassing, and I'm sure the players and coaches agree.

Best part about the whole thing might be that it was only viewable on Cy TV.

Other good thing is that had every single making for one of the worst things ever and they at least prevailed.

Otherwise I think it's absolutely **** how a team like that can look so much more fundamentally sound and prepared in what they did.

If Drake needed 5 yards, they hit it for 6, because it's really that simple.

ALL season long, if ISU needs 5, the trend is to have most receiver hit for a longer ball. Why? Sometimes it worked out for a long TD or whatever, but what about possession football? DM's got good hands. Where is that most basic stuff that's also effective?

Blitzing was great all season and ISU was effective with it today. Why not just go nuts and squash them out? It's not like they had anything to hide.

 

[madguy30]

If I had to guess, we have tried to run up the middle probably 300 times this season. I can think of 1 play, Sheldon Croney's touchdown, where it actually opened up for a clear run. Some of our best runs this year were called to go up the middle but Montgomery saw nowhere to run and so just burst to the outside. Even against Drake we could not run three times up the middle and get a first down. Does anyone understand our insistence on that being our most-used, primary play? I do not claim to be a football genius but I am thoroughly perplexed by all the seemingly wasted downs running into a brick wall. Am I wrong?

And that was against Okie State who's bad at defense, in Purdy's first game, where they didn't have any film so were still trying to figure him out.

Otherwise it wasn't there and ISU never really did much to at least compliment it.

 

[DurangoCy]

Also, it was a game broadcast on cyclones.tv and if I’m ISU I’m not sharing footage with anyone to run highlights.

JP in Obi Wan voice: This is not the game tape you're looking for.

 

[CloneGuy8]

I was at the game so I haven't heard. Are Spears and Meeker okay?

 

[DurangoCy]

From the AP writeup:

"It's hard to believe Iowa State is one of the 25 best teams in America after this debacle."

Yikes.

Not aimed at you, but the writer of that statement.

 

[awd4cy]

I’m kinda over hearing about the bs of the field surface. We played a Kansas team no worse than us in 2013 and we went out and kicked their ass on ice. Drake had to play on this surface too.

 

[CysRage]

Was at the game today. Obviously not pretty but a win is a win. Drake played extremely well and wanted to be there, ISU not so much. Hats off to Drake on a great game. ISU will be ready for the bowl. RIP MidAmerican Energy field. It was a muddy mess after the game.

 

[cyfan21]

P.S. still in "CODE RED" alert level....

 

[Jayshellberg]

I realize the o-line are not great run blockers, but I thought they would be able to physically dominate Drake. I guess the margin for error that CMC has spoke about is smaller than I thought. Still, they won the game and I don't think their poor performance will impact how they perform in the bowl. Go Cyclones.

 

[Althetuna]

So what did we actually gain from this?

Frostbite?

 

[CentexCyclone]

Thankfully, I was traveling w/family today and did not have to watch the Cyclones keep up the fine Iowa State football tradition of making FCS teams look like world beaters. I'm sure I would have said some bad words had I watched it live. The Clones were not only outgained but gave up 4.7 yard per play and gained only 4.0 yards per play....to a non-scholarship FCS team. That's hot garbage.

 

[StLouisClone]

Drake's QB looked way too comfortable out there. I believe we only had 2 sacks, but they were both big ones. Not sure why we didn't blitz. Our best games were the ones in which we brought pressure. We really missed Eisworth. Why exactly did he miss the game?

 

[BeneventiCy28]

Drake's QB looked way too comfortable out there. I believe we only had 2 sacks, but they were both big ones. Not sure why we didn't blitz. Our best games were the ones in which we brought pressure. We really missed Eisworth. Why exactly did he miss the game?

Tweaked his hamstring vs K-State

 

[CentexCyclone]

Sorry Re-al, here's the closest we are going to get to the "Blaze package" this season: